Publishers of Learning
Support magazine, which was set up
in 2004 by primary school teacher
Trevor Chalkley and journalist Frances Rickford for teaching
assistants in primary schools. Contact: Brightday Publishing,
83 Alkham Road,
London
N16 6XD. Tel: 020 8806 9646

Magazines focused on the travel and home interest markets. Recent growth
through titles licensed from Channel 4 production company Celador. However,
Brooklands closed four of its five Channel 4 tie-ins
- Property Ladder, You Are What You Eat, Location, Location,
Location and Supernanny in October 2006 to concentrate
on contract titles and the launch of another Channel 4 title, Popworld
Pulp in spring 2007 - a magazine that closed after just a few issues.

Everything France: launched in 2003

Everything Spain:

Perfect Home:

A Place in the Sun: official magazine of the Channel 4 TV series

You Are What You Eat: March 2005 launch (May cover date).
Closed October 2006

Founded in 1987 by John Brown, who left Virgin with the contract to publish
Hot Air, an in-flight magazine for Virgin Atlantic. Had consumer
titles but sold these in 2001 to pave way for merger with Citrus (had
been BLA until 1999) and become number two customer magazine publisher.
Became number one when won contract for satellite broadcaster Sky’s customer
magazine, the UK's highest circulation magazine (ABC figure 5,183,964)
from Redwood Publishing - though it lost this to News Magazines in 2007.
Titles have included: Classic
FM for
the radio station;
Hot Air, Hot Line for Virgin; Waitrose Food Illustrated
(originally followed Gardens Illustrated format as a consumer magazine;
became contract title for supermarket chain Waitrose in 1998, still sold
in newsagents); Room launched in 1997 at £1 a copy with a
run of 500,000 copies for Ikea's eight UK stores; Wisden Cricket Monthly.
Former consumer titles:

Viz (bi-M)
This comic was the company's first news-stand title. Founded by former
DSS clerk Chris Donald in 1979 in Newcastle (aged 19). He started
selling it in pubs and describes it as 'puerile and inane'. In 1989,
sales reached over a million. Sold to IFG in 2001; now published by
Dennis

Set up by editor and publisher Steve Doyle, who put his own cash behind the publishing of men's monthly Buck in 2008. Rather than aiming at City slickers, Buck sees itself as for the more creative man, who's happy to burnish his own image, instead of buying one off a shelf through GQ.

German parent
Hubert Burda
Media Group (HBM) has more than 250 titles publications: 60-odd in Germany
and the rest in in 19 countries around the world. HBM publishes Germany's
biggest selling celebrity weekly, Freizeit Revue,
news weekly Focus and computer monthly Chip, as well as the German versions of Elle,
In Style and Playboy. Also has TV production, radio
and online divisions.
Alan Urry - former UK boss of German rival Bauer - runs the company.

Amber (Q): March 2003 launch for version of popular German
title Young Lisa, but closed soon after. Had adopted 'handbag'
size used for Glamour

Full
House (W): March 2005 launch at 40p (rising to 60p; by
27 April 2006 copy cost 90p). Reported by Guardian as having
£9m launch budget. Traditional women's weekly combines celebrity
gossip with puzzles and real-life stories.

Business Traveller, launched in 1976, is the leading magazine in its field.
It has ten editions worldwide including the UK, US, Asia-Pacific,
China, Germany, Spain and South Africa. German edition published with Gruner & Jahr.
Middle East edition launched spring 2000. BT is owned by Panacea
Publications, which also publishes Buying Business
Travel, The International
Medical Travel Journal and Mix, a magazine about meetings
in Asia.

Consumer and contract publisher set up in June 1998 by former IPC editor-in-chief
Sally O'Sullivan. Ambitious plan for six launches in a year not achieved.
Mixed record, with Front the most successful title in terms of
sales. In March 2003, Highbury House bought Cabal for £10 million.
However, Highbury itself then collpased and its magazines were split among
several publishers, including Future.

Crime Weekly Delayed by launch of IPC's 'spoiler' Chat
Crime and Passion in February 1999. Never appeared

Front (M) Lads magazine aimed at younger market than Loaded
and FHM. First ABC came in at 140,000, well below target of 200,000.
It had been hit by supermarkets refusing to stock the first issues because
of raunchy content

Good Health (M) Bought from Pantile Publications in Feb 1999.
Since closed

Mondo (M) Nov 2000 launch for the global hedonist. Closed
in 2000

Maximum Mountain Bike (M). Closed

Pro Cycling (M). Closed

The Real Homes Magazine (M) First ABC at 130,000, against
150,000 target. Went to Highbury and then sold to Hachette Filipacchi .

Has more than 30 trade magazines; 20 exhibitions; 150 conferences and 25
websites. Good links from home page. Leading titles include Creative
Review, The Lawyer, Marketing
Week, Money Marketing, New Media Age. Bought several
titles from Miller-Freeman in 1999, including The Engineer, which
Graham Sherren had edited before founding Centaur. Mad.co.uk
is an online community for media, marketing, advertising and design based
on the company's magazines.

Chelsea is an independent publishing company with offices in the United Kingdom and North America. The company bought bought Classic
Boat from IPC Media in 2010. It publishes:

Artists & Illustrators, published for almost 25 years with profiles, practical ideas, technical advice and product tests for all types of artists, whether working in oils or watercolours, portraits or landscapes, abstract art or botanical illustration

Upmarket publisher of fashion-based monthlies. Massive success with launch
of 'handbag-sized', cut-price Glamour to overtake long-term women's
monthly leader Cosmopolitan (Nat Mags). High profile failure of
Trash in 2003, a contract title for clubbing group Ministry of
Sound.

Subsidiary of US parent,
which publishes 18 titles, including The New Yorker, GQ, Vogue
and Wired. Outbid Hearst to buy Fairchild Publications from Disney
in August 1999 for $650 million. The purchase of
W, Women's Wear Daily and Jane made Condé
Nast the biggest US fashion magazine publisher. Online strategy focused
around Condenet

Business (closed 1991) (M): Condé Nast teamed up with the Financial
Times in 1986 to back Kevin Kelly in launching this glossy
monthly.

Easy
Living (closed 2013; July last issue): April 2005 monthly launch aimed at women aged 35+. Went online only and also closed iPad and iPhone apps. The decision was taken even though ABC circulation looked healthy - it had increased 7% to 150,020 in the last half of 2012, while all the big glossies, including direct rival Good Housekeeping, had lost ground. Conde Nast's Glamour was down 9.1% year on year at 424,077. Easy Living's ABC figure was made up of 81,043 newstrade, 64,545 subscriptions, 4,235 regular bulk sales and 194 multiple copy subs. However, the devil was in the detail: of the newstrade sales, 48,888 where below full price and 1,825 at 20-50% of the cover price. Similarly with the subs: 52,255 at 20-50% and 11,920 at reduced price. The company blamed 'multi-bagged sales deals' whereby the title was sold in outlets such as WHSmith in a bag with another magazine for a cheap price

Glamour
(M): A5 'handbag-sized' women’s lifestyle/fashion glossy overtook Cosmopolitan as the bestseller within a year of its April 2001 launch

Tatler
(M) Society magazine launched in 1901. In 1989, started to lay claim
to the heritage of Addison and Steele's Tatler established in 1709

Trash: Only one issue: July/Aug 2003. Contract title for Ministry
of Sound. Editor Rachel Newsome, former Dazed & Confused
editor

Vogue
(M) Fashion monthly (though was often published twice a month until
1980s). Liberis Publications launched Greek edition in spring 2000;
the thirteenth version worldwide.

World
of Interiors (M) Upmarket interiors title with international
flavour. Founded as Interiors in
1981 by Kevin Kelly with Min Hogg as editor. Changed name in
1983 to World of Interiors and bought out by Conde Nast
to enable international expansion

Founded in 1950s by Michael Heseltine and Clive Labovitch, who had met
at Oxford university. Labovitch had bought What's What, a student
guide to cinemas, restaurants and clubs. The company bought John Taylor's
Man About Town from Tailor & Cutter and the short-lived
weekly news magazine
Topic from Dome Press. Then Geoffrey Crowther, chairman of printers
Hazell Watson & Viney bought a 40% stake in Cornmarket, which was
renamed Haymarket. Man About Town
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